Re: YASID

On 21 May 2024 00:34:52 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
<tednolan>) wrote:

In article <lb28gmF3ugeU1@mid.individual.net>,
Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:

In article <69mn4jppd29is4apku7o4njitkt5cpkhm6@4ax.com>,
Chris Duck  <chrisduck@coldmail.com> wrote:

Thanks!
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On Mon, 20 May 2024 17:22:22 -0400, William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
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technovelist wrote:

Anyone have a reference for a short story in which a famous composer

is "brought back from the dead"

by giving a completely nonmusical person a "personality transplant"

(my term, I'm not sure what it

was called in the story)? The twist is that the "revived composer"

realizes just before they take

away the personality transplant is that he is the critics' version of

the composer, a complete hack

with no actual original ability.
 
I read this in a short story collection. It might be James Blish or

Arthur C. Clarke but I haven't

seen any titles that ring a bell in their bibliographies.

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It is "A work of art" by James Blish.  The composer was Richard Strauss.
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Robert Mills edited an anthology in which authors were invited to submit
their best stories.  This was Blish's choice.
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William Hyde
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That's interesting, in that it certainly doesn't sound as good as say,
"Surface Tensin".

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Or "Surface Tension" even..

That's because it is what the /author/ regarded as his best story.

Or so I presume.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"